title: Frailty.
abstract: The increasingly common awareness of frailty in human affairs seeks deeper explanation. Several reports employ non-traditional platforms to generate a framework which accommodates a range of experimental findings. Consideration of thermodynamic processes underlies much of this approach.
authors.affiliation: Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94025, USA. DRWBORTZ@aol.com
authors.forename: Walter M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: Bortz
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000378:metabolism; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D025461:Feedback, Physiological; D016330:Frail Elderly; D006706:Homeostasis; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D010641:Phenotype; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013312:Stress, Physiological; D049490:Systems Biology; D013816:Thermodynamics; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers